| 单词 | not to see a styme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to see a styme 1. In the phrase not to see a styme: to be unable to see at all. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > become blind > be blind not to see a stymea1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19652 Noþer he ete þaa thre dais time, Ne he iwiss moght se a stime. a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice l. 605 in Poems (1981) 152 To kene the self a styme it [sc. the spirit] may nocht se, For stammeris on eftir effectioun. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiii. 23 Thow [Cupid] markis quhair nevir styme thow seis, Bot hittis be gaiss. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. iv. 36 If a man cannot see (as we say) a stime, but with one eye, we account it no solecisme to say, hee hath lost the other. 1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 8 My Neen..are seay Gummy and Furr'd up sometime. I can nut leauke at 'th Leet, nor see a stime. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 115 I've seen me daez't upon a time, I scarce could wink or see a styme. 1808 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (new ed.) 142 Deil a wink cud I sleep, nay nor yet see a steyme. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cvii The night was murthering dark; you could not see a stim. 1901 J. Mollison Poems 94 They feared that never again War their e'en tae see a stime. < as lemmas |
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